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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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THITH'ER, adv. To that place; opposed to hither.
Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another.
To that place; -- opposed to
hither.
This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither. Gen. xix. 20. Where I am, thither ye can not come. John vii. 34. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument
tended thither.
Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another. Syn. -- There. Thither, There. Thither properly denotes motion toward a place; there denotes rest in a place; as, I am going thither, and shall meet you there. But thither has now become obsolete, except in poetry, or a style purposely conformed to the past, and there is now used in both senses; as, I shall go there to-morrow; we shall go there together. Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a
correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the
water.
W. D. Howells. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older
than; of more years than. See Hither,
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